With the United States out of Afghanistan, former members of the Afghan Security Forces who were once trained by the United States are joining Islamic State-Khorasan Province, better known as ISIS-K, the Islamic State’s regional affiliate. The result is all too predictable given America’s track record of inadvertently aiding the creation of extremist groups in the…
Something quite extraordinary happened in early November in Kabul. Taliban interim-Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and Turkmen Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov got together to discuss a range of political and economic issues. Most importantly, they resurrected the legendary soap opera which in the early 2000s I dubbed Pipelineistan: the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline. Call it…
Hopefully those who’ve been misled by these influential voices will challenge them to publicly account for their lies by confronting them with the facts that were shared in this analysis in order to restore integrity to the community. Influential voices in the Alt-Media Community have recently begun implying that no such thing as ISIS-K exists…
Just because Hezbollah and Syrian representatives shared their interpretation of something doesn’t automatically mean that they’re right, but even if they’re considered to be, then that also doesn’t automatically mean that others’ contrarian ones are wrong. Hezbollah and Syria are part of the anti-Zionist Resistance, and their representatives are regarded by many in the Alt-Media…
It’s understandable why these optics would concern the American public though since the average person has difficulty understanding why their government would trust a group that it still officially regards as terrorists. US President Joe Biden can rightly be criticized for almost everything related to his country’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, especially since he himself…
The search for new enemies will continue no matter who is president or which party dominates congress, Phil Giraldi writes. President Joe Biden is being praised in some circles because he finally ended the war in Afghanistan that in all likelihood should never have begun. President George W. Bush initiated the conflict on a series…
